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Choose your Username.  For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either).  Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username.  While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups!  Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself!  Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018. 

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind.  In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships."  OPSEC is everyone's responsibility. 

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.  

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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All Mom's who hail from the very proud state of TEXAS!!!

Members: 1413
Latest Activity: Feb 25

A Little Bit About TEXAS

Welcome all Moms who hail from the very proud state of TEXAS!!! Please tell us about where you live in Texas (we all know it is pretty big). Also, give us an idea about what your Sailor is doing and where he/she is (watch for OPSEC issues, though).



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Comment by Brenda Sue on July 15, 2009 at 6:02pm
SeaShell - I don't have a Sailor on the Truman, but I did get to see it come in from deployment last summer!! Awesome sight!!! Have you found the group of Moms from the Truman? I can help you if you haven't!!
Welcome to all our newbies!!

Cecelia - if you would call me - I would bring you a dinner!!!
I sent you a card with my phone number in it today!
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 14, 2009 at 10:14am
P'nut & JAM - Thanks!! It is a new endeavor that Molly's Adopt a Sailor project is starting (and I am "monitoring"). We are sending cards to ANY military that is currently ill or to the family of someone who has passed. You can check out the link by clicking here.

The "Help" was getting people to come over and see about it and help name the new project. We got that done - but you might want to go read the stories and buy some cards. Bring Kleenex!!!
Comment by CCR on July 13, 2009 at 9:12pm
I posted an article from Congresswoman Kay Granger about the USS Ft. Worth under the discussion "Ft. Worth moms"
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 13, 2009 at 6:44am
Anyone know this Sailor??

QM2 Scott Lopez of San Antonio, left, joins shipmates of the U.S.S. Makin Island as they man the rails as the ship heads for the waters of the Gulf of Mexico after leaving Northrop-Grumman Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss, Friday, July 10, 2009.

Comment by Brenda Sue on July 12, 2009 at 6:34pm
We need YOUR help - here!!!
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THANKS!!!!!
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 12, 2009 at 4:06pm
ENOUGH:
Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments
together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near
the security gate, they hugged, and the mother said, 'I love you, and I
pray you enough.'

The daughter replied, 'Mom, our life together has been more than enough.
Your love is all I ever needed. I pray you enough, too, Mom.'

They kissed, and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window
where I was seated. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to
cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy, but she welcomed me in by
asking, 'Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be
forever?'

Yes, I have,' I replied. 'Forgive me for asking, but why is this a
forever good-bye?'

'Well...I'm not as young as I once was, she lives so far away & has her
own busy life. I have some challenges ahead, and the reality is - her
next trip back will be for my funeral,' she said.

'When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I pray you enough.'
May I ask what that means?'

She began to smile. 'That's a prayer that has been handed down from
other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.' She paused a
moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and she
smiled even more. 'When we said, 'I pray you enough,' we wanted the
other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to
sustain them.'

Then, turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were
reciting it from memory.

I pray you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray
the day may appear.

I pray you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I pray you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I pray you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may
appear bigger.

I pray you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I pray you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I pray you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye..

Then, she began to cry, and walked away.

They say, it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to
appreciate them, a day to love them, but an entire life to forget them.
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 12, 2009 at 1:08pm
wow - Irene how sad!! Prayers for all of you - but especially that young man!!
Irene, keep us posted!!

Joni - thanks for sharing the pictures!! I so wish I could have come - but did not want to make that drive by myself!!
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 9, 2009 at 11:28pm
Becky - SEVERAL (but not enough) of our moms are meeting in Denton this Saturday to help build on a Habitat for Humanity house.

I can get you the information if you are interested.

and WELCOME!!!
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 8, 2009 at 9:05pm
Joni, If I can't get someone to ride up there with me (to share gas expense) I may not get to come!! I'll let you know! I know Colleen is not!
Comment by Brenda Sue on July 8, 2009 at 9:04pm
Sue - at the bottom of each discussion is either "follow" or "stop following" - you want them all to say "stop following" I think. So in your email's go to a few and change that word (it may be the other way around).

I like to follow a discussion I replied to in case someone has another question about what I said. When, I see they don't or more people answer more - I click that word to "whichever" - I just can't remember which way it is supposed to be.
Hope this helped!!
 

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